This ‘Dancing Doc’ Brightens Sick Kids’ Dreary Days And His Enthusiasm Is Contagious!

When Tony Adkins, a physician assistant at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County in California, walks into a room it automatically lights up with his cheerful demeanor and optimism – and especially his love for music and dancing! Adkins, whose moniker is the “Dancing Doc,” works with children in the neuroscience unit and will often play an infectiously happy song and change both the patients’ and staff’s mood in an instant.

According to Trisha Stockton, a neuroscience unit nurse, Atkins’ fellow co-worker and “happiness advocate,” the patients ask them for the “Dancing Doc.” “Tony lightens up every room he walks into. A kid that hasn’t smiled in days, smiles,” she explained.

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Adkins, who grew up in a poor neighborhood with a single mom knows what it’s like to experience hardships. Yet he also was given the amazing tools to persevere and seek happiness in himself and in others. “Being in neurosurgery we see some of the worst things that can possibly take place for a kid,” he explained. “I have been blessed with a sound mind and heart to uplift these little kids. Each one of them gets a special treatment from me all the time. They are my inspiration and my motivation to be the best provider I can be.”